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21) Giovanni's Room
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 372
Description
"GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply...
25) Sarah's key
Author
Pub. Date
2007
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Description
"Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. But before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family's apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours." "Paris, May 2002: On Vel'd'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond,...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
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In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power -- France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well-known man about town in occupied Paris. He's also a minor asset in the U.S.'s secret intelligence forces in Europe. Through a wild twist of fate, it falls...
33) Stillwater
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Humble blue-collar laborer and family man Bill Baker (Matt Damon) contends with the unthinkable after his college-aged daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin) calls him from behind the bars of a French prison, revealing that she has been charged with murder. Bill then resolves to travel from rural Oklahoma to the bustling cities of France on an odyssey driven by paternal instinct, determined to prove his daughter's innocence to the French courts and secure...
36) A good woman
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to...
37) French kiss
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiancé gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.
39) Stillwater
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
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